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Hm... the IP who did this also edited the living centenarians list to remove Tatyana Frutze, citing her Russian wiki article. This was also done in September by an IP who also killed off Lise Nørgaard and Marita Camacho Quirós, citing nothing. If it's the same person, they might have just made it up.

Phillips somehow dying has convinced me that Barker may actually be mortal.

Doris Grumbach dead at 104.

David Davis dead at 86. Writer-producer for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Newhart, etc. Also the partner of actress Julie Kavner since 1976.

Reacting to every post on the forum is a little more than "liking posts". You have to admit it's at least a little funny that he's reacted to almost 400 posts since he was brought up in this thread for it, given that was only a day ago! Do I "hate" him? No he seems like a fine guy and well-meaning and he doesn't seem especially fazed given that he hasn't exactly slowed down on the reactions. (And I'm quite new here, I don't want to be arrogant and tell people what to do.) But given that he's been here less than a month and has already been complained about multiple times, I would at least recommend he didn't unnecessarily mark every single post with the Diego seal of approval so we don't have to discuss him every other week.

6583 now. Where is he even finding these posts?

He's been on my radar, but doesn't strike me as DL-worthy given that he isn't especially famous or known to be ailing. Also, there are a bunch of ancient Nobel laureates out there with no known health problems, so it's probably hard to pick just one of them. Who goes first? Solow? John Goodenough? Yang Chen-Ning? Rudolph A. Marcus? Roger Guillemin? Torsten Wiesel? Esaki?

I don't find it annoying as much as it just confuses me. Why would you need to react to a post to know you have read it? Can't you remember you read it? And wouldn't you just need to mark the most recent post?

Diego has dished out 6221 reactions in just under a month. With a little bit of effort on our parts, I believe we can get this number to 1000000 before the end of the year. EDIT: 6241 now... getting closer...

Francis is definitely weaker than he used to be, but lately he's back to walking without assistance and has a planned trip to Bahrain in a few days. If he resigns in 2023, I can see him living a few more years.

60s/70s child star Dawn Lyn in a coma "fighting for her life" after undergoing brain surgery.

If people are still in the mood for some more lists/ideas, here are some of my personal coffin teases that haven't been brought up often on this site: Peter Angelos (93, severely ailing for over five years now, too incapacitated to do much of anything according to legal documents and was reportedly on death's door as of 2018) Lowell Weicker (91, frail and dealt with vague "health issues" in late 2019, missed another event this month due to health problems) Walt Brown (96, obese withering US politician who looked 100 years old when he ran for president back in 2004. Seemingly vanished off the face of the earth after 2010) Chris Haughey (97, last living MLB player from 1943 season. Suffered a severe injury in 2019 and has been in assisted living ever since) Barthe DeClements (102, ancient bestselling children's author, has lived in a 24-hour care home for seemingly a few years now) Harvey Carignan (95, decrepit serial killer who could potentially be a year or two older if you take him at his word. Was described as an "invalid" by a prison correspondent back in 2021)

Vince Dooley dead at 90.

Duane Eddy and Wanda Jackson.

Here's one I just learned of a few weeks ago: Oscar- and Emmy-nominated Star Trek art director Joseph R. Jennings died back in 2015 almost completely unnoticed. My search shows one person tweeted about it in December of that year, but that's all I've found so far outside of public records. He really couldn't sneak into a single In Memoriam? His IMDb has been updated since I found out, but he's still in Wikipedia limbo for now.

Just my 2c but I doubt that was a legitimately new photo. The two Twitter accounts that shared it (JesusChrysler1 and kipshots) seem to simply post tons of photos/articles of celebrities found online, so nothing that would make you think they have a special connection to JLL or anything, and the new FB post from his sister mentions he's at home but doesn't seem to say he's in great health. There hasn't been anything on his IG since the image with Kristofferson (which didn't even mention he was in the hospital to begin with), when you'd think that if he was actually able to walk around and greet fans, they'd post something ASAP, given that he appeared to be virtually dead there and was just death hoaxed...

I hope so. The shame nightmares I'll have about being the first to post TMZ's false report won't go away until he actually croaks.

Variety checks in, with a comment from his representative: I like that the Variety writer even comments that saying he's "alive and well" would be a stretch

Yeah, in the past ~10 years I've followed deadpooling, I've only noticed a few (and it's usually stuff that wasn't their problem, like Tony Dow and Tanya Roberts). The potentially apocryphal story about Lil Wayne dying per them might have been before my time. If JLL actually does live on for, like, over a month, people won't forget that one quickly. Definitely their biggest blunder I've seen off the top of my head. But we all make mistakes!

Definitely too much smoke for there not to be something IMO. But, oof, what a ding for TMZ's credibility. Now everyone doubting one of their death reports can just go "remember JLL?"

He lives! https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/26/jerry-lee-lewis-not-dead/

Local Tennessee affiliate reporting it too. Fairly convinced. Never seen TMZ yank an obituary like that, though...

If TMZ ever picked someone to blow it on, hard to think of someone more fitting than Jerry Lee Lewis the indestructible!

Dead. https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/26/jerry-lee-lewis-dead-dies-87/

John Jay Osborn Jr., author of The Paper Chase, dead at 77.